WAR'S NURSE CAVELL?

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 263, 27 January 1941, Page 5

WAR'S NURSE CAVELL?

FATE OF MISS WINIFRED HARLE

Is Winifred Harle destined to become this war's Nurse C'avell? At present her fate hangs in the bal-» anee. The final decision will be made in Berlin following the American Embassy'sjntervention against her death sentence for the distribution of pro-British propaganda.

"It is not surprising that Miss Harle became involved in trouble with the-Germans," declared a British business man, formerly resident in Paris, in an article in the. Evening Standard. "She is the type of girl to tell the Bodies exactly where they get off! "She is a tall, slim blonde, a strik-ing-looking Englishwoman who wears horn-rimmed spectacles and always sdbms immensely critical of the world in general. • "If she is called on to argue her case before a tribunal, she will do it as effectively as Dimitroff at Leipzig, and might even beat the jutlges on law points, because she is a firstclass self-taught lawyer. She carried on a successful secretarial service, and was appointed translator and interpreter at the British ant! United States Embassies and Con- ■ sulates, because she had a perfect ~j command of French and German., She was repeatedly sent on important missions to London, New York, and Berlin, enhancing her relputa- , tion by the masterly transaction of her clients' business. ' one of. the pirinoipal American lawyers in Paris offered her a business managership, which was virtually a junior partnership. She moved into palatial offices on the Rue Cambon, but had to be her ? — own boss, so two years later she reestablished her own office. "Miss Harle. Respite her success^ led a lonely life. Iter only brother, <a prowising actor, whom s-lie adored, died many years age. 9be re* fused many offers ef marriage. "I can just hear lier telling everybody, whether they wanted to hear it or n®t, what she thought, of Britain, France and-Germany, and sitting up alt night long typing out British hDettdoasts f«r "these poeij f0015.."